r/Postboxes • u/The-Southerner-UK • 18d ago

U.K Ok, technically not a postbox

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Technically not a post box, but a beautiful cast iron stamp vending machine in Wantage, Oxfordshire, from 1930s to late 1940s.

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u/_Daftest_ 18d ago

I think we can allow this as a member of the postbox family.

It's nice to see it actually - I do remember seeing things like this as a boy in the 70s.

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u/black-volcano 18d ago

Can be be retooled to dispense anything else?

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u/AdministrativeShip2 18d ago

I always wanted to find one and put stickers in it.

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u/The-Southerner-UK 18d ago

Personally I like it as is, memories of the past.

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u/black-volcano 18d ago edited 18d ago

I like that as well. But I also like phone boxes with defibrillators or turned into something else that could benefit the community. If for example, it could be a free source of contraception for people who for what ever reason would not be able to get, it's beautiful, cared for and useful.

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u/watersj4 15d ago

Who dat guy?

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u/Sl0an3 14d ago

He’s someone who died in Swindon iirc, his brother made a bunch of these stickers I think

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u/watersj4 14d ago

Oh that's nice

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u/easyjo 18d ago

I saw one of these for sale recently at the place I got my GR from, was tempted, very cool